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Paul Waldman / Public Notice:
A more secure ballroom will not stop the madness  —  Public Notice is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  🍃🍃 Subscribe to PN 🍃🍃  —  Four US presidents were assassinated while in office, and dozens of other times, someone has plotted to kill the occupant of the White House.
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Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
April 26, 2026  —  Today Assistant Attorney General Brett A. Shumate of the Department of Justice Civil Division wrote to the lawyer for the National Trust for Historic Preservation demanding that the organization drop its lawsuit against Trump's planned ballroom on the site where the East Wing of the White House used to be.
Meg Kinnard / Associated Press:
Justice Department cites dinner shooting to press preservationists to drop Trump ballroom suit
Josephine Walker / Axios:
Republicans rally behind Trump's ballroom plan after gala shooting
New York Post:
Read White House Correspondents' Dinner gunman Cole Allen's full anti-Trump manifesto  —  Accused White House Correspondents' Dinner gunman Cole Allen sent a sprawling, crazed manifesto to family members 10 minutes before Saturday's attack, sources told The Post.
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Norah O'Donnell / CBS News:
Trump “wasn't worried” during White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  Last night in the nation's capitol a gunman stormed the security perimeter at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.  The president, the first lady, the vice president, cabinet members …
Eli Stokols / Politico:
Trump lashes out at ‘60 Minutes’ anchor for reading alleged gunman's manifesto
Fox News:
Obama says motive unclear despite manifesto outlining alleged targets in WHCD shooting
Wall Street Journal:
D.C. Shooting Suspect Was Targeting Trump, Writings Indicate
Washington Post:
Correspondents' dinner lacked highest security level despite presence of top officials  —  The White House correspondents' dinner, attended by the president and several Cabinet members, was not given top security status that would have unlocked the full weight of federal security resources.  —  Summary
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Joe Hernandez / NPR:
Alleged White House Correspondents' Dinner shooter set to appear in federal court
Tim Balk / New York Times:
What's Next in the Nationwide Redistricting Fight  —  All eyes are on Florida and Virginia, where a special session and courtroom proceedings set for this week factor into the battle for the House in the midterms.  —  A nationwide gerrymandering tug of war moves this week to the Florida Legislature …
Discussion: The Hill, The Guardian and NBC News
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Marc Elias / Democracy Docket:   In Virginia, Republicans attack the map and the right to vote
Matthew Kupfer / Democracy Docket:
Virginia court declines to block Democrats from using new voter-approved congressional map
Discussion: Cardinal News
David A. Lieb / Associated Press:
Virginia Supreme Court considers whether to block voter-approved US House map favoring Democrats
Discussion: WTTG-TV
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Iran offers U.S. deal to reopen strait but postpone nuclear talks  —  Iran through Pakistani mediators gave the U.S. a new proposal for reaching a deal on the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and the ending of the war, with nuclear negotiations postponed for a later stage, according to a U.S. official and two sources with knowledge.
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Associated Press:
Iran offers to reopen Strait of Hormuz if US lifts its blockade and the war ends, officials say  —  Iran has offered to end its chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for the U.S. lifting its blockade on the country and an end to the war, while proposing that discussions on the larger question …
Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
'It's going to be a circus': Inside Mike Johnson's grueling week … Johnson is also facing a rebellion from his rank-and-file all the way up to some of his senior members over his plan to move ahead with the budget resolution the Senate advanced last week that would only address immigration enforcement funding.
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Maayan Lubell / Reuters:
Netanyahu's biggest rivals join forces for Israel's next election  —  Two of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's most formidable political rivals said on Sunday they were joining forces in a bid to oust his coalition government in the upcoming election expected later this year.
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New York Times:
Rumors and Speculation Swirl Online After Shooting at Washington Dinner  —  Influencers jumped to fill the information void with conspiracy theories about the attack at the White House Correspondents' dinner on Saturday.  —  Almost as soon as gunshots were reported from the White House Correspondents' dinner …
New York Post:
How many times must Trump be targeted before the left quits radicalizing people?  —  For the third time, an assassin Saturday night came far too close to killing President Donald Trump.  —  And in what's starting to seem like a pattern, the suspect was clearly a radicalized lefty.
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Ryan King / New York Post:
House GOP expands its ‘MAGA Majority’ program for battleground races as midterms heat up  —  WASHINGTON — The official House Republican campaign arm has added eight seats to its 2026 midterm battleground race list in a display of confidence that the party can not just hold, but expand its narrow majority in the lower house of Congress.
Discussion: Roll Call
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
From One Assassination Attempt to the Next: Mainstreaming Violence Against a President … At the White House Correspondents' Dinner, Donald Trump was the target of yet a third assassination attempt—this time in full view of the Washington press corps.  —  The event was presented as a spirited night with Trump.
Discussion: AMAC
Politico:
Clash over Trump family businesses entangles Senate crypto bill … The debate over the bill is giving Democrats a powerful point of leverage over one of the president's marquee financial policy priorities.  The Trump family's crypto businesses, which account for more than $1 billion of their wealth …
Discussion: DNYUZ and The Independent
Cory Turner / NPR:
Inflation is sucking the life out of teacher pay raises, report says  —  The average salary for a public school teacher in the U.S. rose to $74,495 in the last school year, up 3.5% from the year before.  But adjusted for inflation, today's teachers are estimated to be earning less, not more, than they were in 2017.
Miranda Devine / New York Post:
Dems must heed Trump's call for unity in the wake of frightening WHCD shooting: ‘Resolve our differences’  —  The look on First Lady Melania Trump's face after a gunman tried to storm the White House Correspondents' dinner Saturday night said it all.  —  Eyes wide, mouth agape …
Wall Street Journal:
The Simple Security Flaws That Exposed Trump to Another Gunman  —  Dinner guests said getting into the hotel was remarkably easy; “What the hell is the Secret Service doing?”  —  At the same hotel where then-President Ronald Reagan was shot 45 years ago, it was remarkably easy for a shooter …
Garrett Downs / CNBC:
MAHA at odds with Trump over Supreme Court's glyphosate case, farm bill … A Supreme Court case and a bill moving through Congress this week are set to test the bonds of Republicans and the Make America Healthy Again movement, following a near-rupture in February over the weedkiller glyphosate.
Enda Curran / Bloomberg:
Fed to Hold Interest Rates as Political Drama Overshadows Policy Debate  —  Federal Reserve officials are expected to leave interest rates unchanged this week at a gathering that's being overshadowed by the latest twists in a political drama surrounding the leadership handover at the US central bank.
 
 
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Politico:
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New York Times:
The U.S. Started the War. The Rest of the World Is Feeling the Effects.
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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
President Trump lashed out at Norah O'Donnell in a 60 Minutes interview after she read a portion of a manifesto left by the WHCD shooting suspect

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